Carpenter s gage



(No Model.)

A. J. BURGER.

OARPENTERS GAGE.

Patented Dec. 2, 1884.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

AUGUSTUS J BURGER, OF NEW LONDON, \VISOONSIN.

CARPENTERS GAG E.-

SEEGIEICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 308,746, dated December 2, 1884.

Application filed July 18 1884. (No model.)

To It whom it may concern Be it known that I, AUGUSTUS J. BURGER, of New London, in the county of Waupaca and State of \Visconsin, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Carpenters Gages, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective elevation of a carpeters gage equipped with my improved rotating scribing-wheel. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the scribing-wheel detached from the stock; and Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section of a complete gage having two rotatable scribingwheels.

My invention relates to carpenters gages; and it consists in certain novel improvements in such devices, which Will be fully understood from the following description, when taken in connection with the annexed drawings.

In the accompanying drawings A represents the stock of the gage, and B the head or fence. One end of the stock is provided with a keeper, G, having two transverse ears, D, between which is pivoted a wheel, E, having a serrated edge.

In Fig. 3 is shown two scribing-wheels, the

, stationary wheel E on the end of the stock A,

may be properly graded by notches or otherwise, so as to enable the user to set the device without the use of a rule or measure.

It is obvious that the employment of a wheel having a serrated edge, as shown, will prevent the wheel from following the grain of the wood when the gage is used, as is the case with the gage having a rigid point.

I am aware that serrated wheels have been used for this purpose, and I therefore disclaim the use, broadly, of such a wheel.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new is The combination, with the adjustable head and hollow stock of a gage, of the wheel E on one end of the stock, the nut and its setscrew on the opposite end of the stock, the endwise-adjustable bar G, tapped through said nut, provided with a wheel, F, on one end and a handle on the opposite end, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand, this'lst day of July, 1884., in the presence of witnesses.

AUGUSTUS J. BURGER.

Witnesses:

J. S. ZERIBE, WALTER ALCOKE. 

